Prokhore Kartveli

Prokhore Kartveli (Prokhor the Georgian) (985/990–1066), Founder of the Monastery of the Cross (Jvari) in Jerusalem. He was born in Georgia. He began his ecclesiastical activities at Tskarostavi Monastery, where he served first as a deacon, and later - as as a monk. In 1015-25 he served at the Lavra of St. Sabba in Jerusalem. Supposedly, in 1025, Prokhore Kartveli started to build the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, which was completed in 1060. He was the Dean of that monastery till 1061, when he left for the Arnon Desert (Palestine). Prokhore Kartveli communicated with Giorgi Mtatsmindeli as well as with Georgian monasteries on Mt. Athos and Black Mountain, which supplied Georgian manuscripts to the Monastery of the Cross. Anonymous specimen of old Georgian literature - Life Of Prokhore, which was written in 1066-1070, tells the story of Prokhore Kartveli’s life.

Prokhore Kartveli died in Palestine.